BUBL LINK / 5:15 Updates
Recent Additions to the Catalogue of Internet Resources
1 - 15 July 2000
For live links to all these resources, see
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/updates/current.html
000 Generalities
Encyclopedia of the Celts
Alphabetically arranged definitions of Celtic words, names,
and phrases. Full explanations for entries are given where
necessary, and alternative spellings for selected terms are
provided.
Harrassowitz
Bookseller specialising in the dissemination of German
language materials including monographs, periodicals,
electronic journals, and music scores, within the academic
and research library community.
Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia: US Journalists 1840-1960
Provides biographies of prominent historical US journalists
including Joseph Pulitzer, Ernest Hemingway, Walt Whitman,
and Mark Twain.
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004 Computing and the Internet
SuperJANET4
Documents changes to be made to the SuperJANET network due
to the regionalisation of education, advances in
technology, and the ever expanding user base. Describes the
process and requirements of building the network, and
offers an events listing and an archive of news bulletins.
Renardus
Consortium of European partners aiming to devise and
implement a pilot service to improve access to Internet
based information, comprising a series of subject gateways.
Provides information about participants such as DutchESS,
DAINet, GENRES, the RDN, and EELS, and documents project
deliverables.
Search Adobe PDF Online
Resource enabling users to search titles and summaries of
PDF documents held on the Internet. Keyword searches return
a listing of relevant titles with links to full text Adobe
files.
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020 Library and Information Science
Digital Librarian
Annotated index of Internet resources, considered useful
for librarians. An email notification service is provided
for new additions to the service, and an alphabetical
subject list facilitates browsing of the collection.
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: Dublin Core Qualifiers
Describes the principles governing the Dublin Core element
refinement and encoding scheme qualifiers. Also provides a
summary and definitions approved by the DCMI Usage
Committee.
Collaborative Digital Reference Service
Project working towards the provision of a reference
service based upon the digital collaboration of libraries
worldwide. Traces the initiative's history and pilot
stages, and offers bibliographic information for related
publications.
Commission for Preservation and Access: Structured Glossary of
Technical Terms
Glossary of terms associated with the technologies of
document preservation, with particular emphasis on document
media conversion and digital computer technologies.
Selecting Research Collections for Digitisation
Report proposing a procedure for assessing the suitability
of research collections for digitisation. Addresses issues
such as intellectual ownership and physical nature of the
source materials, number of current users, format, resource
description, archiving, and delivery. Also discusses the
relationship of the project to other digitisation
activities, and weighs up associated costs against
potential benefits.
Bibliography on Digital Watermarking
Searchable set of citations relating to digital image
watermarking. Offers details of title, series, publisher,
keywords, and online address for each entry where
available. Browsable in BibTex or HTML format.
Judaica Libraries and Archives on the Web
Directory of links to library home pages and archives
located in Israel, United States, Canada, Curacao, Austria,
Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany,
Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, New
Zealand, and South Africa, all of which relate to the
literature, culture, and customs of the Jewish population.
Revision of IFLA's Guidelines for Public Libraries
Pre-print circulated for comment prior to the official
publication of IFLA's guidelines scheduled for the end of
the year 2000. Presented as six chapters, issues addressed
include the role and purpose of the public library, the
legal and financial framework, meeting user needs,
collection development, human resources, and management and
marketing.
Vancouver Public Library
Offers information about collections, services and
borrowing, and library events. Also provides access to the
Library's catalogue, strategic plan, mission, budget, and
annual report.
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300 Social sciences
Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia: European Emigration 1820-1920
Features information on emigration from Europe to the
United States, including statistics, and details of
immigration legislation, and countries of origin. Also
offers biographies of prominent emigrants.
Engendering Development through Attention to Gender
World Bank report addressing issues relating to gender and
development. Covers social norms, laws, economic
institutions and growth, and policy making, with a view to
promoting gender equality. Report is presented as a PDF
file.
Northern Ireland Elections
Information about specific elections from 1993 onwards and
parliamentary constituencies with results from 1996-1998.
Also offers local council election results from 1993 and
1997, and traces the history of Westminster elections in
Northern Ireland since 1920.
Discovery and Innovation: US Federal Research and Development
Activities
Offers information about federal research and development
units, funding, and activities for each of the 50 US
states, as well as for the District of Columbia and Puerto
Rico. Individual state reports are available as PDF files.
Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia: US Trade Unionism 1840-1960
Offers information on the trade union movement in the US,
including biographies of activists such as James Hoffa,
John L. Lewis, and Mary 'Mother' Jones, organisations and
journals, and significant events in union history.
IMF General Data Dissemination System
International Monetary Fund project established to guide
the overall development of economic, financial, and
socio-demographic data systems. Focuses on data
characteristics, quality, access, and integrity, and
features information on activities in participating
countries.
Morrie Sacks Law Corporation
Set of Canadian legal resources covering divorce, child
support, custody and access, spousal support, property
insurance, and wills. Also provides access to statutes
upheld in federal, provincial, and native Canada.
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500 Natural sciences and mathematics
ISI Web of Science
Provides access to the Science, Social Science, and Arts
and Humanities Citation Indices. Also offers related
services such as the Index to Scientific and Technical
Proceedings, Current Contents Connect, and Journal Citation
Reports. Subscription is required.
Fundamental Physical Constants
Reference document listing symbols, values, and units
relating to physical constants, such as speed of light in
vacuum, planck mass, and nuclear magneton.
Light
A guide to the physics of light covering topics such as
wavelengths, the speed of light, colour, lenses, lasers,
mirrors, diffraction, reflection and refraction, and solar
power. Available in English and Polish.
Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom
Searchable directory of substances, accessible by name,
chemical group, colour, streak, hardness, crystal group,
elemental affiliations, and Dana classification.
Information returned for each entry covers chemical
formula, composition, transparency, specific gravity,
luster, popularity, and demand. Also includes a gallery of
images and a glossary of related terms.
Satellite Tracking of Threatened Species
Offers information on the use of satellite tracking to
monitor the migration routes of endangered wildlife.
Focusing on birds, graphical illustrations of example
flight paths in North America, South America, Eurasia, and
Africa are provided.
MicrobeLibrary.org
Searchable database of visual resources depicting microbes.
Users can select species group, stain, media, or keywords,
and are then presented with microscopic stills, animations,
or QuickTime film footage.
European Butterflies
Offers photographs and information about butterfly species
belonging to the Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danaidae,
Libytheidae, Nymphalidae, Satyridae, and Lycaenidae
families. Gives details of metamorphosis and the life cycle
of each species.
World Bumble Bees
An insight to the Bombus genus, commonly known as the
bumble bee. Information concerning variants from around the
world can be accessed by biogeographic region, species
group, or via an alphabetical listing.
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600 Technology (applied sciences)
Institute for Learning and Research Technology
Organisation involved in the development of technology for
the purposes of teaching, learning, and research. Gives
details of projects and services arranged both
alphabetically and thematically, training and consultancy
activities, news, and forthcoming events.
Patent and Intellectual Property Resources
Collection of links to UK and European based trademark
databases, patent libraries, intellectual property
organisations, licensing resources, classification schemes,
and national, regional, and international legislation.
Royal Society of Medicine
Organisation providing educational activities and
opportunities for doctors, dentists, and veterinary
surgeons, and encouraging the exchange of knowledge and
ideas on the science, practice, and organisation of
medicine. Features information on the society library, with
a facility to search the catalogue, and details of
forthcoming events.
Soil Communities
Textual and graphical guide to the complex systems of life
within soil communities. Covers topics including biological
crusts, fungi, bacteria, protozoa, nematodes, arthropods,
the soil food web, and burrowing animals.
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700 The arts
Performance: The Arts Channel
Searchable collection of arts resources with sections on
performance television, classical music, ballet, opera,
contemporary dance, and jazz. Includes a UK events guide
with tickets available for sale online.
Collage Portal
Image database containing works held at the Guildhall
Library and Art Gallery in London. Entries are accompanied
by details of artist, medium, longest dimension, and date
of execution, and are organised into subject areas such as
archaeology, architecture, history, leisure, military and
war, natural world, politics, religion, society, and trade
and industry.
DW3 Classical Music Resources
Collection of material including information about
composers from Medieval, Renaissance, Romantic, Baroque,
Classic, and early and late Twentieth Century periods.
Covers choral, instrumental, and electronic music, opera,
instruments, and theory and composition. Also provides
birth and death dates of musicians, details of local
musical events in regions throughout the world, and an
index of fully searchable music databases.
Football Unlimited
Roundup of UK football news, reports, fixtures and scores.
Provides information and statistics on individual clubs,
league tables, and a selection of interactive games.
Cricket Unlimited
Offers cricket news, fixtures, results, and live scores.
Also provides access to Wisden Cricketers' Almanack which
dates back to Victorian times, and Wisden Cricket Monthly
founded in 1979. Records for batting, bowling,
all-rounders, and wicketkeeping and fielding, together with
details of series records for England v Australia, New
Zealand, and South Africa are included.
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900 Geography and history
London Net
Magazine publicising news, shopping, events, and
sightseeing in and around London. Offers a guide to cinema,
clubs, music, and theatre, and also provides information
about accommodation available for visitors.
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